My 4th Birthday Party!

We celebrated my birthday with the traditional pool party and my grandparents and my cousins all came to visit!

Love,
Ainsley

Swarmin' for My Birthday

We always seem to wait until February to celebrate my November birthday.  There's just more stuff going on that is not holiday related in February.  This year was no exception.  I took some friends to see the Minnesota Swarm play the Edmonton Rush.

It was a double header with the Minnesota Roller Girls.  We met some of the girls before the Swarm game.

The Swarm play at the Xcel Energy Center, where the Wild play in the NHL.

Unfortunately, the Swarm lost the game and we couldn't stay for the whole roller derby.  It was still a great night!

Love,
Ben

My Half Birthday

We celebrated my half birthday at school today!  I got this great crown!

Love,
Ainsley

Happy Birthday, Benny!

Because of our schedules this year, Ben's birthday was pretty low-key.  Here we are opening his presents.  Hammy had fun.

Love,
Ben, Cameron, and Ainsley

My 3rd Birthday Party!

I turned 3 last week, but we had my birthday party today!

Love,
Ainsley

My 8th Birthday Party

We had my 8th birthday party at my karate school, Dojo Karate.  It was a lot of fun to have all of my friends and my brother and sister there. 

We started out warming up.  Didn't Ainsley look cute in her karate outfit?

After some basic karate moves, we took a break and played dodgeball!

Then Mr. Lefavor brought out the kicking towers and we all got to do flying kicks! Ainsley and Ben did awesome.

After kicking the towers, we got to do battle with Nerf like swords.  Most kids were nice.  Ben and I really went after each other. 

Mom and Ainsley even had a turn.

Just before dinner, we all got to break boards with our hands.  Ainsley  had some help from Mr. Lefavor, but she did an awesome job!

We ended the party by having a massive Nerf gun battle.  It was soooooo much fun.

Love,
Cameron

Cameron's First Karate Tournament

Today was my 8th birthday and it was also my first karate tournament.  The morning started very early because we had to be in downtown Minneapolis by 7:30 in the morning.

After some waiting, it was time for my first competition - intramurals.

I did pretty well.  In fact, I came in first in my group.

I was pretty excited.

My next event was the Mega Team, which is where everyone at my school competes together. The official photographer took these two pictures of me.

We ended up winning the Mega Team competition!

I came in third in my last event.  By then, I was really tired I was ready to be done.

Love,
Cameron

Ben's Birthday Party

I couldn't decide what to do for my birthday party, so we waited until early February when I could figure it out. We ended up going to see Star Wars Episode 1 in 3D. It was totally awesome.

Naturally, it was a Star Wars theme.


Aaron had to leave early, so we took his picture separately.


Here's everyone else - everyone left in a Star Wars T-shirt.



Love,
Ben

My 10th Birthday

I turned 10 the other day. Here are some photos of me opening presents. As you can see, Ainsley wanted to help a lot!








Love,
Ben

My Birthday!

It was my birthday and some of my cousins, my grandparents, and my aunt and uncle came to party!

Ben and Cameron set up a water wonderland in our backyard!






My brothers tried to get Mommy in the pool, but she wasn't having it.


After a nap, we had a Minnie Mouse themed party!







Love,
Ainsley